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His coalition partner, Jericho the lion, was feared dead this weekend, but Zimbabwe authorities say a research project snapped a photo of Jericho on Sunday morning.

Cecil, lured away from a refuge and killed, was an attraction at…

Off camera, Palmer’s next door neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified, said she didn’t really know Walter Palmer but that his wife was a “great person'”.

Meanwhile, Zimbabwean authorities are expected to seek the extradition of Walter Palmer, the Minnesota man thought to be responsible for killing Cecil the lion in early July.

“Unfortunately it was too late to apprehend the foreign poacher as he had already absconded to his country of origin”, Muchinguri said.

The Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Britain’s prestigious Oxford University, which had tracked Cecil since 2008, said more than £550,000 (S$1.2 million) had been received in donations over the past week.

“It was too late to apprehend the foreign poacher because he had already absconded to his country of origin”, Muchinguri said. My client didn’t realize that this lion was a collared lion until it had been shot so it wasn’t his intention to kill such a...

Palmer hadn’t even seen the story yet about Minnesota-based dentist Walter Palmer, who was already under intense scrutiny for killing Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe.

Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside Palmer’s dental practice in Bloomington, Minnesota, this week to voice their disgust, CNN affiliate WCCO reported. Environment Minister Oppah Muchinguri has meanwhile appealed for the United States to extradite Palmer so he can...

Unfortunately it was too late to apprehend the foreign poacher as he had already absconded to his country of origin.

The Facebook page of a group called the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said Saturday that Jericho was killed.

“We never hear them speak out when villagers are killed by lions and elephants in Hwange“. The company runs safaris on thousands of acres in South Africa.

“To lure the animal out of the preserve, I don’t understand how anybody thinks that’s a sport”.

Piper Hoppe, 10, from Minnetonka, Minnesota, holds a sign at the doorway of River Bluff Dental clinic in protest against the killing of a famous lion in Zimbabwe, in Bloomington, Minnesota July 29, 2015. Critics say the killing of Cecil demonstrates how the elite hunting industry...